This post by Marc Brooker on (meta-)stability might be a fun and explanatory read: <a href="https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html" rel="nofollow">https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html</a><p>Murat is also an amazing writer and distsys researcher, so basically anything he writes about I find interesting.
Oh, very interesting. I've ran into problems like this in queuing systems and had no idea that this is what they were called.<p>Going in and just dumping the queues can solve it, but can be tricky depending on the complexity of the system.